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As Facebook moves to shut down facial recognition, online security experts emphasize internet safety

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Lakhimpur violence: Security up as Ashish Mishra reaches Crime Branch, Internet shut in district | India News

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Lakhimpur/Lucknow: Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra, accused of running over farmers in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, on Saturday reached Crime Branch office at Lakhimpur for questioning.

Security has been beefed up at the police lines to avoid any untoward incident, while internet has been suspended in the area.

Ashish Mishra aka ‘Monu bhaiyya’ was issued fresh notice on Friday a day after he missed his deadline.

Facing reporters at Lucknow airport, the junior home minister said his son Ashish Mishra could not appear before police as he was not well but will record his statement on Saturday.

Mishra was named in an FIR following allegations that he was in one of the vehicles that mowed down four farmers protesting over…

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Coos County Family Health Services shut down by ransomware attack | State

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BERLIN — A ransomware attack has shut down Coos County Family Health Services, a main provider of health services in the Androscoggin Valley.

Coos County Family Health CEO Ken Gordon said the attack affected essentially all of its systems — phone, computer and email.

He said the non-profit organization noticed early Monday morning, before its various clinics opened, that there were abnormalities in the way its systems were running. An examination revealed the entire system had been compromised. He said CCFHS shut down services and worked to prevent further activity on the system.

Gordon confirmed the system had been hit by a ransomware attack but said he could not talk about the attack itself. He emphasized that there is no evidence that patient information has been compromised. He said the organization hopes to have phone service restored by Thursday and to have the entire system back up and running as soon as possible.

“We’re slowly in the process of rebuilding and standing things up,” Gordon said.

On Wednesday, Coos County Family Health Services had its Page Hill Clinic at Androscoggin Valley Hospital open for walk-in care and Dr. Brian Beals and pediatric nurse practitioner Chelsey Andrea were seeing sick children at the Gorham office.

The organization is hoping all four clinics will be open to see patients on a limited basis Thursday.

Coos County Family Health Services operates primary care clinics at 133 Pleasant Street and Page Hill at Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin and at 2 Broadway Avenue in Gorham, offering a wide range of health and social services including primary care, pediatrics, women’s health, podiatry and behavioral health. It operates a dental clinic at 73 Main Street in Berlin. CCFHS also runs RESPONSE sites in Berlin, Lancaster, and Colebrook, addressing the needs of survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Gordon said the non-profit serves about 15,000 people annually and offers services on a sliding fee scale for those without insurance or with large deductibles.

The ransomware attack comes in the middle of a pandemic that has taxed health-care providers. Gordon said he feels patients and…

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Babuk ransomware readies ‘shut down’ post, plans to open source malware

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Babuk ransomware shuts down

After just a few months of activity, the operators of Babuk ransomware briefly posted a short message about their intention to quit the extortion business after having achieved their goal.

Unlike other gangs that chose to release decryption keys or even return the collected ransoms, Babuk’s final gesture is to pass the torch to others.

Hanging up the encryption keys

Earlier today, the Babuk ransomware gang said in a message titled “Hello World 2” on their leak site that they had achieved their goal and decided to shut down the operation.

However, they would not leave the stage without a legacy: the source code for Babuk file-encrypting malware would be publicly available once they terminated the “project.”

The message suffered modifications and was visible for a short while on the main page of the site, though. In one version captured by Dmitry Smilyanets of Recorded Future, the cybercriminals said that breaching “PD was our last goal,” a clear reference to their latest victim, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). As seen in the screenshot below, “PD” was also in the title.

Another variant of the message, captured by BleepingComputer, did not have “PD” mentioned at all, potentially suggesting that the gang is preparing to end its operations in the foreseeable future, after having compromised a different victim.

Nevertheless, one part of the message is clear in both versions of the message. Whenever the Babuk ransomware gang decides to call it quits, at least under the Babuk name, they would “do something like Open Source RaaS, everyone can make their own product based on our product and finish with the rest of the RaaS.”

Babuk ransomware last words

Babuk’s latest victim is the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), the main law enforcement agency in Washington, DC, who confirmed the breach to BleepingComputer.

This came after the cybercriminals said that they had stolen 250GB of data before encrypting MPD’s computers and published screenshots of folders stolen in the attack to prove their claims.

Brief stint, plenty of victims

Babuk ransomware emerged at the beginning of the year. Right from the start it targeted victims all over the world and demanded ransoms between $60,000 to…

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